Hello, I'm
Vision AI and AI safety, from research to production.
I work on AI safety, computer vision, and privacy-preserving machine learning. At SAFE AI I lead Vision AI and AI safety research as co-founder and CTO, running ten government R&D programs alongside enterprise delivery. Before that I spent a decade on production systems, from delivery-app backends at Baemin to billing at Kakao, and finished a Ph.D. on nanophotonic inverse design.
Seoul, South Korea
Ph.D. & B.S. Electrical Engineering, Korea University
2012 — Present · SW Engineering → AI Research & Ph.D. → Deep-tech Founder & CTO
SAFE AI, Seoul
Leading Vision AI & AI Safety research as Co-Founder & CTO / Principal Investigator · 10 government R&D programs · enterprise AI delivery
Desilo, Seoul
Privacy-preserving ML: homomorphic encryption (FHE) & multi-party computation (MPC)
Kakao Corp., Seongnam
Backend development for Kakao billing system
Woowa Bros. (Baemin)
Alternative military service (Autobrain → SureM → Woowa Bros.); back-end API, payment / PG servers, MSA migration
Korea University
Advisor: Prof. Junhee Seok
During Ph.D.
Korea University
Best Graduation Thesis Award (Software), 2016
Kyunggi High School
Inverse design of nanophotonic devices using GANs
Display AI convergence talent training
EM wave simulation acceleration via deep learning
Indoor semantic segmentation app using DeepLabV3 + MobileNetV2
Feel free to reach out for collaborations or just a friendly hello.